The Field House. College Sports coverage from The Denver Post’s Kyle Fredrickson.

Tad Boyle showed up Thursday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas wearing a walking boot with his Colorado Buffaloes basketball team set to face Arizona in the Pac-12 Tournament quarterfinals.

The day before, Arizona State guard Tra Holder checked Buffs forward Tyler Bey after a dunk, prompting a brief scrum of opposing players late in CU’s victory. Boyle shot out of his seat to play sheriff. That’s when it happened. “A non-contact injury due to age,” Boyle said. “It felt like a sniper hit me in the back of my calf.”

It appears Tad Boyle might have pulled a muscle or something while coming in to break up that skirmish under the net. Limping pretty good on the sideline. ASU’s Holder & CU’s N. Wright ejected. Here’s what happened. pic.twitter.com/thORI3dGoq

Colorado trailed Arizona by five points with less than 13 minutes left when Buffs’ point guard McKinley Wright, CU’s first-round hero, suffered an apparent ankle injury and did not return. Neither did the Buffs’ chances at victory as Arizona handed CU an 83-67 defeat (box score).

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